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Continental Arctic (cA)
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Arctic basin and Greenland
Bitterly cold and very dry Stable |
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Continental Polar (cP)
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Interior Canada and Alaska
Very cold (winter) to cool (summer). Dry Stable |
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Continental Tropical (cT)
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Norther interior Mexico and SW US (summer only)
Hot and dry Usually unstable |
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Maritime Polar (mP)
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1) North Pacific; cool and humid; unstanble in winter and stable in summer.
2) NW Atlantic; cold (winter) to cool (summer) and humid; cold and unstable in winter and cool and stable in summer. Both are humid. |
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Maritime Tropical (mT)
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1) Gulf of Meico, Caribbean and western Atlantic; warm and humid and sunstable on west side of STH
2) Subtropical, eastern Pacific; warm and humid, but stable on east side of STH. |
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Fronts
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boundary separating air masses of different densities, one air mass is usually warmer and more moist; size varies from 15 to 200 km wide.
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Polar Fronts
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Frontal zone separating air masses of polar origin from air masses of tropical origin
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